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Today I had to rebuild my wine-prefix of Steam and re-install Terraria – the main reason to have Steam in the first place :D

The trouble was that I wanted to install Magicka. Magicka runs on .Net Framework version 3.5, while Terraria is using .Net Framework version 4.0. Unfortunately, the version 3.5 didn’t want to install. To be precise: 3.5 wanted to install 2.0 first, which didn’t install because 4.0 was already installed.

So I decided to create a fresh wine-prefix of Steam and install as much of .Net Frameworks as possible to not run into the same trouble later again. If you do not know what a “wine-prefix” is, have a look at the wiki page of winetricks – an awesome tool to make the usual trial & error work in wine much easier. Read more…

Unfortunately Gitorious does not support so-called hooks, which trigger things on certain events like informing the CIA bot in ##crawl-dev or sending summary emails to the mailing-list when changes are made.

I thought it might be useful to tell of how we made the git-hooks work, even though Gitorious does not provide this feature.Read more…

CUPS states that printer names may contain any printable characters except “/”, “#”, and space. But if you intend to also share that same printer through Samba you might want to make sure the name you choose also does not contain certain characters (any of %<>*?|/\+=;:”,) invalid for Samba…

If you ever intend one day to delete a printer in CUPS (because you cannot rename them) you should also adhere to that Samba name-restriction because otherwise you may not be able to do so – at least not with the administration interface…

How the frack do you make a Windows Vista show computers in the same network but not in the same “workgroup”? Changing the “workgroup” of a Windows computer really still needs a reboot? Jesus..

The network printer shows “Access denied, unable to connect” in Windows?
Then you should add

Having used my old hardware for quite some time now (AMD Athlon XP 2500+ @ 2100, DFI AD77 Infinity) I decided to get new hardware. Basically the decision was not driven by the need for speed but rather by the nifty virtualization features current CPUs provide.

Checking the market revealed that for no obvious reason Intel decided against the users and all CPUs not costing the rough equivalent of a small car are out of scope. So I was with AMD, again. That’s a good thing because AMD thought that it is a good choice to have only 1 basic CPU layout and sell the partially broken chips with deactivated broken parts for less money under different names.

This means that next to every CPU they sell right now whether it is named Athlon X2, Athlon X3 or Phenom or even Sempron is in fact a complete Phenom II with deactivated parts. The parameters for deactivation are AMDs secrets…

So I bought a 4core CPU with a deactivated 3rd level Cache: AthlonII X4 620

I wanted to keep my old hard drives and the rest of the machine, at least for now.

So I thought I’d rip out the old stuff, tighten the screws of the new stuff boot up and be ready!

No… that was not the thing that was about to happen… After having everything put in the right place the machine tried to boot but was unable to find the right logical volume (lvm) because the new boards PATA/IDE device was now called /dev/hdc instead of /dev/hda!

I have moved a few services to the SSL-secured area on the webserver of develz.org. Most notably the WordPress Admin area, the Site Stats and also the new WebMail interface.

Of course I am not going to pay for an officially accepted SSL certificate. You can either accept the site certificate automatically offered to you by your webbrower or install the self-signed CA certificate which is available here.

Note about the Site Stats: Everybody who can write articles can view the stats. Just log in with the user-name and password you use for the Blog.

In a short time I only had a look at three options: Horde, SquirrelMail and RoundCube

A whole framework with online-office functionality would be a bit much for simple emailing – so I decided against Horde.

And keeping up with all the exploits and problems about SquirrelMail is just too exhausting.

RoundCube it is! Nice, smooth and simple user-interface. KISS – address-book and spell-checking being the only gimmicks :D

I added a link in the Meta section on the bottom right shown after logging in to the Blog. Everyone already having a mailbox enabled can immediately log in. Anyone interested pass me a note – it just takes a few seconds to enable your access.

As a first post, I wish to initiate some kind of melting pot for our dotfiles configuration files.
I mean that we can share together the configuration of our common applications, and find the magic tip we never know, or simply discover new tools through the neighbor files.

I begin for now with the three well known Zsh, Vim and Mutt. You can browse my dotfiles configuration files here.
More configurations will income soon. But I need to extract it, make it presentable and remove personal informations from it.

The last 2 days have been quite busy for me and someone already noted about my absence. Sorry, Fleur :-*

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup will be releasing a minor upgrade from 0.5.1 to 0.5.2 soon. Keskitalo and me haxed together a git branch to make zips with Windows binaries of future releases cross-compiled on Debian more easy to do. Run update.sh, wait a bit, hit enter a few times… Tadaaa :) Shell scripting coupled with git haxz0ring is just awesome!

Additionally Tremulous will release a beta of 1.2 soon – after a felt decade since last release :D Seems like it will feature developer team moderated servers and this server will help providing a European point of presence. Lakitu7 and me have setup a vserver without CPU virtualization and a preliminary beta tremded.x86 is running… Let’s hope it works as expected!